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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1960)
Wednesday, Feb. 3, I960 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 3ir TURNED OVER TO POLICE Mrs. Gladys Norman, 47, tries to cover her blackened eye after a fight with her 15-year-old son, who turned her in to police as an alleged narcotics user, police reported. Officers said the boy, John Norman, called them and said, "I want my, mother arrested because she's using dope again." (UPI Telephoto) 55,380 Acres Burned In '59 Fire Season Salem The total acreage burned over during 1959 on all forest lands within Oregon coming under the jurisdiction of the state forestry depart ment and the U.S. forest serv ice totaled 55,380 acres, ac cording to Albert Wiesen- Crosby's Son To Marry Dancer Hollywood -(UPD- Lindsay Crosby, 21, youngest of croon er Bing Crosby's four grown sons, Saturday will marry dancer Barbara Frederickson. A family spokesman said Lindsay and the tall, blonde dancer with Tony Martin's night club act will wed in St. Paul's Roman Catholic church in nearby Westwood. i Lindsay's marriage will leave Gary, 26, the last of the four still single. The twins PhiliD and Dennis, wed Las Vegas chorus girls. danger, executive secretary of the Keep Oregon Green asso ciation. The number of fires was listed as 1,365. "Acreage burned during the past year was considerably above that of 1958 while the number of fires was far less. The 1958 figures show 19, 764 acres burned and a total of 2,680 fires. The difference in the num ber of fires Wiesendanger said, was due largely to an exces sive number of lightning fires in 1958 when the total was 1,573 compared to 439 last season. Man caused fires dropped from 1,107 in 1958 to 926 last year. Woman Injured in One Of Four Accidents A woman suffered neck in juries in a three-car collision in Medford Monday after noon, according to city police. Three other minor traffic accidents were also reported to police. The injured woman, Theo Sarah Rebecca Jones, 41, Gold Hill, suffered a sprained neck Marines Ordered Home in Disgrace As Smugglers London - (LTD - Seven of the U.S. Marines who guard the embassy here are being sent home in disgrace as cigarette and whiskey smugglers. Four sergeants and three corporals were reduced to private by a Navy court mar tial, fined and ordered back to the United. States. A British newspaper said the seven men would be flown back to the U.S., but the re port could not be confirmed immediately. U.S. authorities have refused so far to iden tify the erring guards. Based on Testimony The case against he Ma rines was based on testimony by a Dutch aircraft . worker, husband of a former embassy telephone operator, who said the Marines sold him tax-free cigarettes and whiskey. The worker, Lambertus Van Veggel, had eight bottles of untaxed whiskey and more than 35 cartons of cigarettes in his car when he was caught. He told police he had more than 370 cartons of un taxed cigarettes at home. Veggel was fined $700 for illegal possession of the un taxed goods. His 82,750 auto mobile was confiscated be cause he had not paid cus toms on it. Birmingham. Ala.-flJPD-Po-lice- today sought the ill-mannered burglars who loosened all the light fuses in Mrs. Charles T. Dyer's home before making off with meat, eggs and canned goods. Mrs. Dyer sleeps under an electric blanket. 4 H Club News Howard Bak n' Stitchers Sali Jo Eaton called the Jan. 30 meeting of the How ard Bake n' Stitchers to order. Eleven members were pres ent. Our leader showed a film on muffin making. She then demonstrated how to make them. A short recreation per iod was held after which we had muffins and hot choco late. Joyce Drennen, Reporter and possible other injuries after the car in which she was a passenger was hit from be hind by one car and knocked forward into another vehicle about 12:40 p.m. on Court st., between Manzanita and Ed wards sts., according to police reports. Police said the three cars were proceeding in the same direction when the first car operated by Gertrude Adeline Shontz, Gold Hill, came to an unexpected stop, followed by the second vehicle operated by Wilford James Jones, Gold Hill, which also stopped in time. Fails to Slop However, the third car, operated .by Anna Dora Wright, 37, of 1813 North Riverside ave., did not stop in time, hit the Jones vehicle from the rear and knocked it into' the Shontz car, police said. Theo Jones was taken to j Sacred Heart hospital by Med- j ford Ambulance service. Anna i Wright was cited by city po- i lice for following too close. Police cited Sharon Jean Lyon, 20. of 3520 Bursell rd., Central Point, for disobeying a red light after the car she was operating crashed into a vehicle operated by Frank Dean Price, 39, of 1028 Mt. Pitt ave., at the intersection of Court and Manzanita sts. at 8:47 a.m. Earl Merritt Root Jr., 23, of 1832 North Riverside ave., was cited by city police Mon day for failure to yield the right of way to a vehicle on the right after the van truik he was operating was in volved in a collision with a car operated by Mildred Frances Perkins, 39, of 1340 Murray st., at the intersection of Ninth and Holly sts. at 11:23 a.ru. Another accident occurred about 7:10 p.m. when a car operated by Samuel Taylor Richardson, 41, of 1609 Strat ford Way, hit the rear of a vehicle operated by Alfred Arnold Johnson, 20, of 1832 North Riverside ave., which had stopped for a red light at the intersection of Sixth st. and Central ave. 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